200 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



I have devoted all my tirae not spent in routine work to ray publica- 

 tion on fishing, and have therefore not composed smaller articles, ex- 

 cepting one on " Indian Stone Graves," which appeared in the American 

 Naturalist for February, 1883, pp. 130-134. 



Present state of the collection. 



XUMBER OF SPECIMENS. 



1. In reserve series 8, 043 



2. On exhibition 24, 731 



3. Duplicates 7, 717 



4. Total 40, 491 



ACCESSIONS DURING THE YEAR 1883. 



1. Exhibition 3, 514 



2. Eeserve or study series 055 



3. Duplicates 1, 170 



4. Total 5, 339 



Important additions during 18S3. 



B. E. C. Stearns. Berkeley, Alameda County, California. — Collection of 

 pestles, mortars, and baking-stones from Yuba, Nevada, Placer, and 

 Alameda Counties, Cahfornia. 



James Harrington, City of Mexico.— Three stone sculptures, one (mon- 

 key-shaped) from Tamiahua, and the others (human figures) from Tain- 

 pico, Mexico. Very fine specimens, and a valuable addition to the col- 

 lection of Mexican antiquities. 



J.H. Bivett-Camac, Allahabad, India, — Collection of nuclei and flakes 

 of flint and chalcedony, and chipped and polished celts, from the Banda 

 district, Northwest Provinces of India. Two of the celts were sent 

 through Dr. E. Meyer, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 



Albert I. Phelps, Damariscotta, Lincoln County, Maine. — Collection of 

 flint flakes, rude implements, arrow-heads, bone implements, fragments 

 of pottery, &c, from shell-heaps in Lincoln County. 



U. S. Fish Commission, assisted by Willard Nye, jr. — Collection of rude 

 implements, cutting tools, perforators, scrapers, arrow-heads, sinkers, 

 bone implements, fragments of pottery, &c, from Menemsha Pond and 

 Soaring Brook, Martha's Vineyard, and from Nonamesset Island, and 

 Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. This collection is of special interest, as 

 it shows the stages in the manufacture of stone implements in those 

 localities. 



J. E. Gere, Biceville, Washington County, Wisconsin. — Collection from 

 the vicinity of Biceville: Bude and leaf-shaped implements, cutting 

 tools, scrapers, arrow- aud spear-heads, grooved axes, and a copper 

 spear-head or knife. In this collection are some fine types of arrow 

 and spear-heads, and the grooved axes exhibit unusual forms. The 



